Category: CMS
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Shifting Gears: How to Revamp Your ICD-10 Strategy
Are you struggling to navigate the shifting road to ICD-10? Join this complimentary webinar for expert advice from Ken Congdon, Editor in Chief of Health IT Outcomes, and Valerie V. Duffy, CPC, AHIMA Approved ICD-10 CM Trainer, Senior Coding Manager at SPi Healthcare. On May 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially…
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Number of ACOs will grow in 2015 serving more than 72 million patients.
Link: New ACOs According to a news release in Healthcare Finance, ” The number of accountable care organizations in Medicare’s Shared Savings Program will grow by 89 in January 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid said this week, boosting the total participants to 405. Participating ACOs will now serve more than 7.2 million patients.” Section…
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CMS’ Recent ICD-10 Acknowledgement Testing Nets High Acceptance Rate
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently conducted ICD-10 acknowledgement testing and accepted 76 percent of claims submitted. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently conducted ICD-10 acknowledgement testing and accepted 76 percent of claims submitted. Acknowledgement testing is the most basic level of testing for ICD-10. It determines simply whether…
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Like a Classic Movie Plot Twist: The Latest News on Medicare ACOs
0 Yesterday’s announcement from CMS on the addition of 89 new ACOs to the Medicare Shared Savings Program for ACOs feels rather cinematic—and is worth noting It’s a classic plot device in movies: just when things look darkest, the cavalry rides in, or oil gushes out of the land and the farm is saved, or…
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Opportunities Abound for CMS’ First Chief Data Officer
Last month, CMS announced the formation of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics, appointing Niall Brennan as the agency’s first Chief Data Officer. A health IT policy expert gives HCI his thoughts on the road ahead for both Brennan and the office. Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the…
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Groups express disappointment, frustration with MU penalties
The words “concerned,” “appalled” and “disappointed” sum up the reaction from many in the industry to yesterday’s news from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that about 257,000 Medicare eligible professionals will be hit with penalties for failing to meet Meaningful Use requirements. read more …read more
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Federal Agencies Update Eligible Hospital 2014 Clinical Quality Measures and Provide New Measure Development Testing Tool
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are leveraging emerging health IT in the Medicare and Medicaid programs to improve the quality of care available to beneficiaries. One step…
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ICD-10 delayed after SGR passes Senate
Implementation of ICD-10 will be delayed by at least one more year after the Senate voted, 64-35, Monday evening to approve a temporary, 12-month patch to the sustainable growth rate payment formula that will prevent deep Medicare payment cuts. …read more
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Va. lawmakers back to Richmond, Medicaid expansion hangs in the balance
Vice President Joseph Biden believes that GOP officials in every state will have to accept the expansion. And Florida’s Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, said he’s talked with federal officials about a plan to go around the GOP-controlled state legislature. …read more
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Where Are We At With Meaningful Use?
The following is a guest post by Barry Haitoff, CEO of Medical Management Corporation of America. It seems like meaningful use is in a constant state of flux with moving deadlines and multiple stages that apply to each organization differently. With meaningful use stage 2 just around the corner for many providers it is worth…